Lorna Shore vocalist Will Ramos' voice is such an anomaly that doctors put a camera down his throat to see what the hell was going on. Though in a slightly less scientific story told to Nik Nocturnal about his vocals, Ramos' guttural bellows were also once mistake for the cries of Bigfoot out in the wild.
Ramos said he decided to practice his vocals while out on a walk in the wilderness one day and shortly encountered a guy walking his dog. The guy started asking Ramos about "some crazy sound I just heard," which Ramos decided would be much easier to just lie about and say he had no idea but definitely heard it too.
Naturally the guy – who Ramos ran into twice – revealed that he believed in Bigfoot, and that it could've totally been Bigfoot. Though Ramos also suggested that since the guy came to the forest to meditate, he might've manifested his demons into the real world.
"I went hiking on this walk by myself. I'm like, 'I'm gonna just try my vocals out.' There's nobody out here. … I'm just gonna scream and see what I sound like. I started screaming … I start walking for a little while. Then I look to my left, and I see this dude turning around the corner with his dog. I'm like, 'This is awkward. He totally knows that that was me.'"
"He comes up to me, and I'm like, 'Hey man, how you doing? I love your dog. Can I pet your dog?' He's like, 'Yeah, you can pet my dog — by the way, did you hear that shit? Did you hear that?' And I was like, 'Dude, hear what?' And he's like, 'Dude, it's some crazy sound I just heard. I don't know where it's coming from.'"
"I was like, 'What did it sound like?' He's like, 'Honestly, it sounded like something I never heard before in my life.' I was like, 'Wow, I'm not gonna lie, I definitely heard something, but I think it was coming from behind me.' I was like, 'I'm gonna walk away from that. So if you're walking in that direction, good freakin' luck dude.'"
"I walked away and I thought he left the park, so I continued to do vocals somewhere else in this gigantic forest area. I turned the damn corner and there he is once again with his dog. I was like, 'Bro, I think I heard it!' He's just like, 'Dude, I just heard it again!' I'm like, 'Wow, this is the craziest thing I've ever heard.'"
He concluded: "I was just like, 'What do you think that was?'. He was like, 'Listen, I don't wanna say, but I believe in Bigfoot.' I was like, 'Well, I'm out of here.'"
If you'd like to experience the Bigfoot-like vocals of Will Ramos live, consider catching the band at their Lorna Shore Christmas show on December 18 at the Wellmont Theater in Montclair, NJ. The show will feature Shadow Of Intent, Invent Animate, Signs Of The Swarm, Sentinels, and Endless. Tickets are available here.
